Abstract
Latin literature includes six different color-terms to convey the concepts of multiple or changing colors: bicolor, decolor, discolor, multicolor, omnicolor and versicolor. Each color-term expresses a different aspect of manycoloredness. The terms concolor and unicolor are used to describe the opposite situation: a homogeneous quality of color. This article examines the use of these terms by a wide array of Roman authors, including poets, orators, historians and naturalists, showing the complexity of the Romans’ conception of color.
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